Whip, don't worry, I'm still on Sins, just a little less now.  Busy with the family.

 

Sins has many advantages over SC2 Most important is : in sins u must think fast, in sc2 u must klick fast.

Unfortunately peeps dont want to think while playing, they are looking for disstraction, fast clicking short matches.

dont cry about balance its quite ok everything can be coutered.

Sins is special. in sins skill>numbers, thats y it will never  have high player base.

So enjoi what u have

 

But dont worry all unfaitfull players will return as soon as their fingers will grow tired of clicking or lmb will die

 

PS im still here to smurf your ass:)

While those questions weren't adressed to me I'll go ahead and answer them:

You can freely customize your hotkeys and there are various precustomized sets already like grid, grid for lefties, standard etc. 

Controlgroup size is no longer limited, so feel free to group up as many as you want.

The skill matching is...okay. Not everyone is where he belongs to and since the game's supposed to be up asap you often get grouped up with someone from a higher/lower league, but since that's not necessarily related to his/her skill that's not too bad. And what I personally LOVE: no smurfs. None. None at all. 1 Character per Account, period. It brought a tear to my eye. 

The one thing that sucks majorly is that crossrealm isn't supported (yet) because it's not possible with today's technology (a quote from an interview, made me laugh hard).  Hopefully they'll fix that soon enough.

I was in the SC2 beta.

I preferred sins over SC2 simply for the slower past in sins witch means they was a better chance of epic battles.

In SC2 is mostly a 1 tactic per game. You set one battle plan form the start and it will either work or will not depending if you have read your opponent right and he has not read you right. Mostly by the time you find out what your enemy is doing in SC2 you need to already be countering while in sins you have time to setup a counter.

Not to mention the econ in SC2 is so fast.

in general my main complaint about SC2 is the speed of it. Just to fast to actually enjoy a good well thought out battle.

People are still playing the original Unreal Tournament (1999).  I've been a member of the capture-the-flag (pro) pug match community for years and I've seen numerous people leave for a couple months or a year or only to later return to play the greatest online multiplayer FPS of all time again.  I'm kind of making my own return on public servers now after not having really played it much since I got into Sins back in March 2008.  (I have been playing UT 2004 though.)

I'm already starting to get tired of it after just a couple days.  I am learning to play Terran, and it seems like almost all of my time in this game is spent building structures and queuing up units--it's a game of trying to spam out all these sturctures and units ASAP, and I'm not very good at that compared to the other players.  It's getting repetitive and boring, quickly.

You mean there was still a significant number of people playing Sins?  Shocks me.

Don't be deceived.  Sins, as played online, has always been a clickfest.  In fact, I have found that people exploit micro to death in Sins much more than they do in SC2 (being kited like there's no tomorrow and largely not being able to counter it, or my favorite, "phase jump hopscotch" where the asshole's capship jumps away, I jump to follow only to find he's jumped back, so I jump back again only to find that he's jumped back - NICE! - meanwhile his fleet has been beating on my units the entire time, etc.).  There's some micro and kiting people do in SC2, but it's far, far less irritating, and far more understandable and counterable.  But for the most part, I've found that people just line their armies up and fight it out without all the goofiness and cheese of the "skilled" (cough) with their beloved micro tricks.  In SC2, at least I know I'll never see a dude with a handful of units beat a hundred other units using his micro and "skill."  I did see that in Sins.

And at least with the clickfest of SC2, I understand what my clicks are actually doing a hell of a lot more than I ever did in the clickfest of Sins.  Try as I might, I just could never play Sins at the pro level.  I just couldn't understand the game well enough fundamentally.  I'm not even sure if the devs themselves understand the game.  But what's so hard to understand about what a zergling does, what it counters, and what counters it?

Absolutely not.  The terran are as OP as they were in the beta, and there are other glaring issues.  Having said that, it's probably a lot more balanced coming right out of the box than Sins is after a couple of years.

I have also yet to see a post on the SC2 forums with 1% of the vitriol that has been regularly thrown around here since this game's inception.  I have certainly never encountered the ultra-assholish behavior playing online with SC2 that I saw on a daily basis with Sins.  The worst I've seen in SC2, after hundreds of online games and months in the beta, was a guy call a guy a "towel" (which apparently meant "tampon" if I got the context right).  And I've never seen an assholish clique of guys boot other players.

Sadly, Sins doesn't have auto-download for custom maps and mods.  Maybe what this game really needs is for single player mod fans to tire of the AI and come online in mass, hoping to play mods.

My brother went out and bought SC2, only to be back playing Sins an hour later

I understand what you're saying about Starcraft having a deeper strategy and about how it's hard to appreciate it until you've become a veteran player and studied the game, just like Sins.  But how the hell are you supposed to be able to do something like scout when almost all of your time has to be spent clicking on your SCVs and telling them to build supply depots and then clicking on the barracks and ordering up marines, etc.  Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if people would play the game online at slower speeds.  Where do you find the time to control and order scout units around?  My impression of Starcraft is that it has strategy, but it's hard to ever be able to really think about the strategy since you are constantly rapid-clicking to build structures and units.  Obviously many players are able to do it, but I quickly lost interest.  Perhaps part of the fun of the game is that it becomes a contest of who can click and issue the orders fastest.

Yeah.

Watch this http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3732340/ . This video shows how to do all the stuff that seems problematic for you without even noticing that you're doing it.

You have to understand that Starcraft is made to be a competitive game, meant for tournaments. It is meant to be dynamic. However, it is no longer a clickfest like SC1 was! There is so much improvement over SC1, you just need to grasp the basics of them - multi-building selection, tabbing through groups, smartcasting, multi-casting (how to make 3 selected high templars cast 3 storms in 3 different spots -> hold the hotkey for storm, T, and click the three places. This also works for building...). Spend half an hour on learning those and you will find that you have a lot of spare time to do things other than babysitting your base.

I wonder what Sanchezz above could tell you about playing against the AI in sins...

If your units die so fast, you are likely doing one of below:
- attacking a fortified position up front, which is stupid in itself even in Sins. Find something else to attack? An expansion? Or try dropping stuff in the other guy's backyard?
- trying to attack a unit that counters your units. Attacking hellions, reapers or banelings with zealots, zerglings or marines; attacking Immortals with tanks; attacking marauders with Stalkers..... and all such attempts are asking to get your ass whopped, because you are trying to use unit A against a unit that counters unit A. It's like trying to fight LRFs with LFs in Sins. Everyone knows how that ends.
- not using the Attack Move. In Starcraft, for many reasons, units that are just told to Right-click somewhere will go there first and shoot later (unless they can shoot on the move, like the Phoenix). If you want to tell your units to attacks everything on the way, you need to select Attack and then click somewhere.

heaps of bulls|-|it. That's exactly what noobs think about sins: they think it's all about making starbases everywhere and then dropping starbases onto enemy planets, cause the AI outproduces them easily and they are getting outnumbered from the very first minutes. Everybody knows that's foolish and what you've said is foolish just as well.
Go to youtube, type HDH Invitational and watch any of the commentaries. There is no such crap going on in those games and trust me, any of these guys playing there could own you in more ways than you could imagine possible.

As for clicking fast to select units, just use control groups and the TAB key.

In SC2, if something bumbs into something else, those units step away and around each other. The only situations when a unit won't let another unit pass is when it is a] in combat or b] on hold position. In case of b] , it is just doing what it's told. In case of a]... that's where you should employ micro dude. Yes, that thing you think does not exist, that's where you should use it.

I launched SC2 multiplayer for the first time since the beta (I was busy with the campaign before now, curious what comes out) and noticed something interesting.

There are 50 (!!) practice matches available. That means that any of you can play 50 automatches on normal speed and no-rush maps (at least two destructible rocks block the way, meaning only a fast reaper can harm you in the rush department). By that time you should be pretty handy with the game and ready to step into normal ladder; or if you are not ready, you can always play custom games on normal speed (select create custom game, select map, click create game, choose speed 'normal' to the right and click 'open to public'). There are roughly 25-40 thousand games being played at any time on Bnet, so someone should come and take a looksey into your game. In the worst case you can start a coop against an AI and see how your teammate plays.